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14 Bible Verses about Corruption In Nations

Proverbs 14:34 ESV / 6 helpful votes

Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people.

Isaiah 1:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

Ah, sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken the Lord, they have despised the Holy One of Israel, they are utterly estranged.

Proverbs 29:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes

By justice a king builds up the land, but he who exacts gifts tears it down.

2 Peter 2:19 ESV / 4 helpful votes

They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.

Ephesians 5:11-12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them. For it is shameful even to speak of the things that they do in secret.

Luke 12:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes

In the meantime, when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy. Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known.

Habakkuk 2:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

“Woe to him who builds a town with blood and founds a city on iniquity!

Micah 6:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Your rich men are full of violence; your inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

Amos 5:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes

For I know how many are your transgressions and how great are your sins— you who afflict the righteous, who take a bribe, and turn aside the needy in the gate.

Hosea 9:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes

They have deeply corrupted themselves as in the days of Gibeah: he will remember their iniquity; he will punish their sins.

Jeremiah 17:9-10 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately sick; who can understand it? “I the Lord search the heart and test the mind, to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his deeds.”

Isaiah 59:14-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Justice is turned back, and righteousness stands far away; for truth has stumbled in the public squares, and uprightness cannot enter. Truth is lacking, and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey. The Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no justice.

Proverbs 28:15-16 ESV / 4 helpful votes

Like a roaring lion or a charging bear is a wicked ruler over a poor people. A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor, but he who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.

Proverbs 17:23 ESV / 4 helpful votes

The wicked accepts a bribe in secret to pervert the ways of justice.

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